World English Bible
June
10
1
Samuel 13, 14
1Sa
13:1 Saul was forty
years old when he began to reign; and when he had reigned two years
over Israel,
1Sa
13:2 Saul chose him three thousand men of Israel, of which two
thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in the Mount of Bethel, and
one thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin: and the rest
of the people he sent every man to his tent.
1Sa
13:3 Jonathan struck the garrison of the Philistines that was in
Geba: and the Philistines heard of it. Saul blew the trumpet
throughout all the land, saying, Let the Hebrews hear.
1Sa
13:4 All Israel heard say that Saul had struck the garrison of the
Philistines, and also that Israel was had in abomination with the
Philistines. The people were gathered together after Saul to Gilgal.
1Sa
13:5 The Philistines assembled themselves together to fight with
Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and
people as the sand which is on the seashore in multitude: and they
came up, and encamped in Michmash, eastward of Beth Aven.
1Sa
13:6 When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait (for the
people were distressed), then the people did hide themselves in
caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in coverts, and in pits.
1Sa
13:7 Now some of the Hebrews had gone over the Jordan to the land of
Gad and Gilead; but as for Saul, he was yet in Gilgal, and all the
people followed him trembling.
1Sa
13:8 He stayed seven days, according to the set time that Samuel had
appointed: but Samuel didn't come to
Gilgal; and the people were scattered from him.
1Sa
13:9 Saul said, Bring here the burnt offering to me, and the peace
offerings. He offered the burnt offering.
1Sa
13:10 It came to pass that as soon as he had made an end of offering
the burnt offering, behold, Samuel came; and Saul went out to meet
him, that he might greet him.
1Sa
13:11 Samuel said, What have you done? Saul said, Because I saw that
the people were scattered from me, and that you didn't come within
the days appointed, and that the Philistines assembled themselves
together at Michmash;
1Sa
13:12 therefore said I, Now will the Philistines come down on me to
Gilgal, and I haven't entreated the favor of Yahweh: I forced myself
therefore, and offered the burnt offering.
1Sa
13:13 Samuel said to Saul, You have done foolishly; you have not
kept the commandment of Yahweh your God, which he commanded you: for
now would Yahweh have established your kingdom on Israel forever.
1Sa
13:14 But now your kingdom shall not continue: Yahweh has sought him
a man after his own heart, and Yahweh has appointed him to be prince
over his people, because you have not kept that which Yahweh
commanded you.
1Sa
13:15 Samuel arose, and got him up from Gilgal to Gibeah of
Benjamin. Saul numbered the people who were present with him, about
six hundred men.
1Sa
13:16 Saul, and Jonathan his son, and the people who were present
with them, abode in Geba of Benjamin: but the Philistines encamped in
Michmash.
1Sa
13:17 The spoilers came out of the camp of the Philistines in three
companies: one company turned to the way that leads to Ophrah, to the
land of Shual;
1Sa
13:18 and another company turned the way to Beth Horon; and another
company turned the way of the border that looks down on the valley of
Zeboim toward the wilderness.
1Sa
13:19 Now there was no smith found throughout all the land of
Israel; for the Philistines said, Lest the Hebrews make them swords
or spears:
1Sa
13:20 but all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to
sharpen every man his plowshare, mattock, axe, and sickle;
1Sa
13:21 yet they had a file for the mattocks, and for the plowshares,
and for the forks, and for the axes, and to set the goads.
1Sa
13:22 So it came to pass in the day of battle, that there was
neither sword nor spear found in the hand of any of the people who
were with Saul and Jonathan: but with Saul and with Jonathan his son
was there found.
1Sa
13:23 The garrison of the Philistines went out to the pass of
Michmash.
1Sa
14:1 Now it fell on a day, that Jonathan the son of Saul said to the
young man who bore his armor, Come, and let us go over to the
Philistines' garrison, that is on yonder side. But he didn't tell his
father.
1Sa
14:2 Saul abode in the uttermost part of Gibeah under the
pomegranate tree which is in Migron: and the people who were with him
were about six hundred men;
1Sa
14:3 and Ahijah, the son of Ahitub, Ichabod's brother, the son of
Phinehas, the son of Eli, the priest of Yahweh in Shiloh, wearing an
ephod. The people didn't know that Jonathan was gone.
1Sa
14:4 Between the passes, by which Jonathan sought to go over to the
Philistines' garrison, there was a rocky crag on the one side, and a
rocky crag on the other side: and the name of the one was Bozez, and
the name of the other Seneh.
1Sa
14:5 The one crag rose up on the north in front of Michmash, and the
other on the south in front of Geba.
1Sa
14:6 Jonathan said to the young man who bore his armor, Come, and
let us go over to the garrison of these uncircumcised: it may be that
Yahweh will work for us; for there is no restraint to Yahweh to save
by many or by few.
1Sa
14:7 His armor bearer said to him, Do all that is in your heart:
turn and, behold, I am with you according to your heart.
1Sa
14:8 Then said Jonathan, Behold, we will pass over to the men, and
we will disclose ourselves to them.
1Sa
14:9 If they say thus to us, Wait until we come to you; then we will
stand still in our place, and will not go up to them.
1Sa
14:10 But if they say thus, Come up to us; then we will go up; for
Yahweh has delivered them into our hand: and this shall be the sign
to us.
1Sa
14:11 Both of them disclosed themselves to the garrison of the
Philistines: and the Philistines said, Behold, the Hebrews come forth
out of the holes where they had hid themselves.
1Sa
14:12 The men of the garrison answered Jonathan and his armor
bearer, and said, Come up to us, and we will show you a thing.
Jonathan said to his armor bearer, Come up after me; for Yahweh has
delivered them into the hand of Israel.
1Sa
14:13 Jonathan climbed up on his hands and on his feet, and his
armor bearer after him: and they fell before Jonathan; and his armor
bearer killed them after him.
1Sa
14:14 That first slaughter, which Jonathan and his armor bearer
made, was about twenty men, within as it were half a furrow's length
in an acre of land.
1Sa
14:15 There was a trembling in the camp, in the field, and among all
the people; the garrison, and the spoilers, they also trembled; and
the earth quaked: so there was an exceeding great trembling.
1Sa
14:16 The watchmen of Saul in Gibeah of Benjamin looked; and behold,
the multitude melted away, and they went here
and there.
1Sa
14:17 Then said Saul to the people who were with him, Number now,
and see who is gone from us. When they had numbered, behold, Jonathan
and his armor bearer were not there.
1Sa
14:18 Saul said to Ahijah, Bring here the ark of God. For the ark of
God was there
at that time with the children of Israel.
1Sa
14:19 It happened, while Saul talked to the priest, that the tumult
that was in the camp of the Philistines went on and increased: and
Saul said to the priest, Withdraw your hand.
1Sa
14:20 Saul and all the people who were with him were gathered
together, and came to the battle: and behold, every man's sword was
against his fellow, and there was
a very great confusion.
1Sa
14:21 Now the Hebrews who were with the Philistines as before, and
who went up with them into the camp, from
the country all around, even they also
turned to
be with the Israelites who were with Saul and Jonathan.
1Sa
14:22 Likewise all the men of Israel who had hid themselves in the
hill country of Ephraim, when they heard that the Philistines fled,
even they also followed hard after them in the battle.
1Sa
14:23 So Yahweh saved Israel that day: and the battle passed over by
Beth Aven.
1Sa
14:24 The men of Israel were distressed that day; for Saul had
adjured the people, saying, Cursed be the man who eats any food until
it be evening, and I be avenged on my enemies. So none of the people
tasted food.
1Sa
14:25 All the people came into the forest; and there was honey on
the ground.
1Sa
14:26 When the people were come to the forest, behold, the honey
dropped: but no man put his hand to his mouth; for the people feared
the oath.
1Sa
14:27 But Jonathan didn't hear when his father commanded the people
with the oath: therefore he put forth the end of the rod who was in
his hand, and dipped it in the honeycomb, and put his hand to his
mouth; and his eyes were enlightened.
1Sa
14:28 Then answered one of the people, and said, Your father
directly commanded the people with an oath, saying, Cursed be the man
who eats food this day. The people were faint.
1Sa
14:29 Then said Jonathan, My father has troubled the land. Please
look how my eyes have been enlightened, because I tasted a little of
this honey.
1Sa
14:30 How much more, if haply the people had eaten freely today of
the spoil of their enemies which they found? for now has there been
no great slaughter among the Philistines.
1Sa
14:31 They struck of the Philistines that day from Michmash to
Aijalon. The people were very faint;
1Sa
14:32 and the people flew on the spoil, and took sheep, and cattle,
and calves, and killed them on the ground; and the people ate them
with the blood.
1Sa
14:33 Then they told Saul, saying, Behold, the people sin against
Yahweh, in that they eat with the blood. He said, you have dealt
treacherously: roll a great stone to me this day.
1Sa
14:34 Saul said, Disperse yourselves among the people, and tell
them, Bring me here every man his ox, and every man his sheep, and
kill them here, and eat; and don't sin against Yahweh in eating with
the blood. All the people brought every man his ox with him that
night, and killed them there.
1Sa
14:35 Saul built an altar to Yahweh: the same was the first altar
that he built to Yahweh.
1Sa
14:36 Saul said, Let us go down after the Philistines by night, and
take spoil among them until the morning light, and let us not leave a
man of them. They said, Do whatever seems good to you. Then said the
priest, Let us draw near here to God.
1Sa
14:37 Saul asked counsel of God, Shall I go down after the
Philistines? will you deliver them into the hand of Israel? But he
didn't answer him that day.
1Sa
14:38 Saul said, Draw near here, all you chiefs of the people; and
know and see in which this sin has been this day.
1Sa
14:39 For, as Yahweh lives, who saves Israel, though it be in
Jonathan my son, he shall surely die. But there was not a man among
all the people who answered him.
1Sa
14:40 Then said he to all Israel, You be on one side, and I and
Jonathan my son will be on the other side. The people said to Saul,
Do what seems good to you.
1Sa
14:41 Therefore Saul said to Yahweh, the God of Israel, Show the
right. Jonathan and Saul were taken by
lot; but the people escaped.
1Sa
14:42 Saul said, Cast lots
between me and Jonathan my son. Jonathan was taken.
1Sa
14:43 Then Saul said to Jonathan, Tell me what you have done.
Jonathan told him, and said, I did certainly taste a little honey
with the end of the rod that was in my hand; and behold, I must die.
1Sa
14:44 Saul said, God do so and more also; for you shall surely die,
Jonathan.
1Sa
14:45 The people said to Saul, Shall Jonathan die, who has worked
this great salvation in Israel? Far from it: as Yahweh lives, there
shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground; for he has worked
with God this day. So the people rescued Jonathan, that he didn't
die.
1Sa
14:46 Then Saul went up from following the Philistines; and the
Philistines went to their own place.
1Sa
14:47 Now when Saul had taken the kingdom over Israel, he fought
against all his enemies on every side, against Moab, and against the
children of Ammon, and against Edom, and against the kings of Zobah,
and against the Philistines: and wherever he turned himself, he put
them to the
worse.
1Sa
14:48 He did valiantly, and struck the Amalekites, and delivered
Israel out of the hands of those who despoiled them.
1Sa
14:49 Now the sons of Saul were Jonathan, and Ishvi, and Malchishua;
and the names of his two daughters were these: the name of the
firstborn Merab, and the name of the younger Michal:
1Sa
14:50 and the name of Saul's wife was Ahinoam the daughter of
Ahimaaz. The name of the captain of his army was Abner the son of
Ner, Saul's uncle.
1Sa
14:51 Kish was the father of Saul; and Ner the father of Abner was
the son of Abiel.
1Sa
14:52 There was sore war against the Philistines all the days of
Saul: and when Saul saw any mighty man, or any valiant man, he took
him to him.
June
11
1
Samuel 15, 16
1Sa
15:1 Samuel said to Saul, Yahweh sent me to anoint you to be king
over his people, over Israel: now therefore listen you to the voice
of the words of Yahweh.
1Sa
15:2 Thus says Yahweh of Armies, I have marked that which Amalek did
to Israel, how he set himself against him in the way, when he came up
out of Egypt.
1Sa
15:3 Now go and strike Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they
have, and don't spare them; but kill both man and woman, infant and
suckling, ox and sheep, camel and donkey.
1Sa
15:4 Saul summoned the people, and numbered them in Telaim, two
hundred thousand footmen, and ten thousand men of Judah.
1Sa
15:5 Saul came to the city of Amalek, and laid wait in the valley.
1Sa
15:6 Saul said to the Kenites, Go, depart, go down from among the
Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them; for you showed kindness to
all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt. So the
Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.
1Sa
15:7 Saul struck the Amalekites, from Havilah as you go to Shur,
that is before Egypt.
1Sa
15:8 He took Agag the king of the Amalekites alive, and utterly
destroyed all the people with the edge of the sword.
1Sa
15:9 But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep,
and of the cattle, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that
was good, and wouldn't utterly destroy them: but everything that was
vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.
1Sa
15:10 Then came the word of Yahweh to Samuel, saying,
1Sa
15:11 It grieves me that I have set up Saul to be king; for he is
turned back from following me, and has not performed my commandments.
Samuel was angry; and he cried to Yahweh all night.
1Sa
15:12 Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning; and it was told
Samuel, saying, Saul came to Carmel, and behold, he set him up a
monument, and turned, and passed on, and went down to Gilgal.
1Sa
15:13 Samuel came to Saul; and Saul said to him, Blessed are you by
Yahweh: I have performed the commandment of Yahweh.
1Sa
15:14 Samuel said, What means then this bleating of the sheep in my
ears, and the lowing of the cattle which I hear?
1Sa
15:15 Saul said, They have brought them from the Amalekites: for the
people spared the best of the sheep and of the cattle, to sacrifice
to Yahweh your God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.
1Sa
15:16 Then Samuel said to Saul, Stay, and I will tell you what
Yahweh has said to me this night. He said to him, Say on.
1Sa
15:17 Samuel said, "Though you were little in your own sight,
weren't you made the head of the tribes of Israel? Yahweh anointed
you king over Israel;
1Sa
15:18 and Yahweh sent you on a journey, and said, 'Go, and utterly
destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they
are consumed.'
1Sa
15:19 Why then didn't you obey the voice of Yahweh, but flew on the
spoil, and did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh?"
1Sa
15:20 Saul said to Samuel, Yes, I have obeyed the voice of Yahweh,
and have gone the way which Yahweh sent me, and have brought Agag the
king of Amalek, and have utterly destroyed the Amalekites.
1Sa
15:21 But the people took of the spoil, sheep and cattle, the chief
of the devoted things, to sacrifice to Yahweh your God in Gilgal.
1Sa
15:22 Samuel said, Has Yahweh as great delight in burnt offerings
and sacrifices, as in obeying the voice of Yahweh? Behold, to obey is
better than sacrifice, and to listen than the fat of rams.
1Sa
15:23 For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is
as idolatry and teraphim. Because you have rejected the word of
Yahweh, he has also rejected you from being king.
1Sa
15:24 Saul said to Samuel, I have sinned; for I have transgressed
the commandment of Yahweh, and your words, because I feared the
people, and obeyed their voice.
1Sa
15:25 Now therefore, please pardon my sin, and turn again with me,
that I may worship Yahweh.
1Sa
15:26 Samuel said to Saul, I will not return with you; for you have
rejected the word of Yahweh, and Yahweh has rejected you from being
king over Israel.
1Sa
15:27 As Samuel turned about to go away, Saul
laid hold on the skirt of his robe, and it tore.
1Sa
15:28 Samuel said to him, Yahweh has torn the kingdom of Israel from
you this day, and has given it to a neighbor of yours who is better
than you.
1Sa
15:29 Also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent; for he is
not a man, that he should repent.
1Sa
15:30 Then he said, I have sinned: yet honor me now, Please, before
the elders of my people, and before Israel, and turn again with me,
that I may worship Yahweh your God.
1Sa
15:31 So Samuel turned again after Saul; and Saul worshiped Yahweh.
1Sa
15:32 Then said Samuel, Bring here to me Agag the king of the
Amalekites. Agag came to him cheerfully. Agag said, Surely the
bitterness of death is past.
1Sa
15:33 Samuel said, As your sword has made women childless, so your
mother will be childless among women. Samuel cut Agag in pieces
before Yahweh in Gilgal.
1Sa
15:34 Then Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house to
Gibeah of Saul.
1Sa
15:35 Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death;
for Samuel mourned for Saul: and Yahweh grieved that he had made Saul
king over Israel.
1Sa
16:1 Yahweh said to Samuel, How long will you mourn for Saul, seeing
I have rejected him from being king over Israel? fill your horn with
oil, and go: I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite; for I have
provided me a king among his sons.
1Sa
16:2 Samuel said, How can I go? if Saul hear it, he will kill me.
Yahweh said, Take a heifer with you, and say, I have come to
sacrifice to Yahweh.
1Sa
16:3 Call Jesse to the sacrifice, and I will show you what you shall
do: and you shall anoint to me him whom I name to you.
1Sa
16:4 Samuel did that which Yahweh spoke, and came to Bethlehem. The
elders of the city came to meet him trembling, and said, Do you come
peaceably?
1Sa
16:5 He said, Peaceably; I have come to sacrifice to Yahweh:
sanctify yourselves, and come with me to the sacrifice. He sanctified
Jesse and his sons, and called them to the sacrifice.
1Sa
16:6 It happened, when they had come, that he looked at Eliab, and
said, Surely Yahweh's anointed is before him.
1Sa
16:7 But Yahweh said to Samuel, "Don't look on his face, or on
the height of his stature; because I have rejected him: for Yahweh
sees not as man sees; for man looks at
the outward appearance, but Yahweh looks at the heart."
1Sa
16:8 Then Jesse called Abinadab, and made him pass before Samuel. He
said, Neither has Yahweh chosen this.
1Sa
16:9 Then Jesse made Shammah to pass by. He said, Neither has Yahweh
chosen this.
1Sa
16:10 Jesse made seven of his sons to pass before Samuel. Samuel
said to Jesse, Yahweh has not chosen these.
1Sa
16:11 Samuel said to Jesse, Are here all your children? He said,
There remains yet the youngest, and behold, he is keeping the sheep.
Samuel said to Jesse, Send and get him; for we will not sit down
until he come here.
1Sa
16:12 He sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, and withal of a
beautiful face, and goodly to look on. Yahweh said, Arise, anoint
him; for this is he.
1Sa
16:13 Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the
midst of his brothers: and the Spirit of Yahweh came mightily on
David from that day forward. So Samuel rose up, and went to Ramah.
1Sa
16:14 Now the Spirit of Yahweh departed from Saul, and an evil
spirit from Yahweh troubled him.
1Sa
16:15 Saul's servants said to him, See now, an evil spirit from God
troubles you.
1Sa
16:16 Let our lord now command your servants who are before you, to
seek out a man who is a skillful player on the harp: and it shall
happen, when the evil spirit from God is on you, that he shall play
with his hand, and you shall be well.
1Sa
16:17 Saul said to his servants, Provide me now a man who can play
well, and bring him to me.
1Sa
16:18 Then answered one of the young men, and said, Behold, I have
seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, who is skillful in playing, and
a mighty man of valor, and a man of war, and prudent in speech, and a
comely person; and Yahweh is with him.
1Sa
16:19 Therefore Saul sent messengers to Jesse, and said, Send me
David your son, who is with the sheep.
1Sa
16:20 Jesse took a donkey loaded with bread, and a bottle of wine,
and a kid, and sent them by David his son to Saul.
1Sa
16:21 David came to Saul, and stood before him: and he loved him
greatly; and he became his armor bearer.
1Sa
16:22 Saul sent to Jesse, saying, Please let David stand before me;
for he has found favor in my sight.
1Sa
16:23 It happened, when the evil
spirit from God was on Saul, that David took the harp, and played
with his hand: so Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil
spirit departed from him.
Jun.
10
John 13
Joh
13:1 Now before the feast of the Passover, Jesus, knowing that his
time had come that he would depart from this world to the Father,
having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.
Joh
13:2 During supper, the devil having already put into the heart of
Judas Iscariot, Simon's son, to betray him,
Joh
13:3 Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his
hands, and that he came forth from God, and was going to God,
Joh
13:4 arose from supper, and laid aside his outer garments. He took a
towel, and wrapped a towel around his waist.
Joh
13:5 Then he poured water into the basin, and began to wash the
disciples' feet, and to wipe them with the towel that was wrapped
around him.
Joh
13:6 Then he came to Simon Peter. He said to him, "Lord, do you
wash my feet?"
Joh
13:7 Jesus answered him, "You don't know what I am doing now,
but you will understand later."
Joh
13:8 Peter said to him, "You will never wash my feet!"
Jesus answered him, "If I don't wash you, you have no part with
me."
Joh
13:9 Simon Peter said to him, "Lord, not my feet only, but also
my hands and my head!"
Joh
13:10 Jesus said to him, "Someone who has bathed only needs to
have his feet washed, but is completely clean. You are clean, but not
all of you."
Joh
13:11 For he knew him who would betray him, therefore he said, "You
are not all clean."
Joh
13:12 So when he had washed their feet, put his outer garment back
on, and sat down again, he said to them, "Do you know what I
have done to you?
Joh
13:13 You call me, 'Teacher' and 'Lord.' You say so correctly, for
so I am.
Joh
13:14 If I then, the Lord and the Teacher, have washed your feet,
you also ought to wash one another's feet.
Joh
13:15 For I have given you an example, that you also should do as I
have done to you.
Joh
13:16 Most certainly I tell you, a servant is not greater than his
lord, neither one who is sent greater than he who sent him.
Joh
13:17 If you know these things, blessed are you if you do them.
Joh
13:18 I don't speak concerning all of you. I know whom I have
chosen. But that the Scripture may be fulfilled, 'He who eats bread
with me has lifted up his heel against me.'
Joh
13:19 From now on, I tell you before it happens, that when it
happens, you may believe that I am he.
Joh
13:20 Most certainly I tell you, he who receives whomever I send,
receives me; and he who receives me, receives him who sent me."
Joh
13:21 When Jesus had said this, he was troubled in spirit, and
testified, "Most certainly I tell you that one of you will
betray me."
Joh
13:22 The disciples looked at one another, perplexed about whom he
spoke.
Joh
13:23 One of his disciples, whom Jesus loved, was at the table,
leaning against Jesus' breast.
Joh
13:24 Simon Peter therefore beckoned to him, and said to him, "Tell
us who it is of whom he speaks."
Joh
13:25 He, leaning back, as he was, on Jesus' breast, asked him,
"Lord, who is it?"
Joh
13:26 Jesus therefore answered, "It is he to whom I will give
this piece of bread when I have dipped it." So when he had
dipped the piece of bread, he gave it to Judas, the son of Simon
Iscariot.
Joh
13:27 After the piece of bread, then Satan entered into him. Then
Jesus said to him, "What you do, do quickly."
Joh
13:28 Now no man at the table knew why he said this to him.
Joh
13:29 For some thought, because Judas had the money box, that Jesus
said to him, "Buy what things we need for the feast," or
that he should give something to the poor.
Joh
13:30 Therefore, having received that morsel, he went out
immediately. It was night.
Joh
13:31 When he had gone out, Jesus said, "Now the Son of Man has
been glorified, and God has been glorified in him.
Joh
13:32 If God has been glorified in him, God will also glorify him in
himself, and he will glorify him immediately.
Joh
13:33 Little children, I will be with you a little while longer. You
will seek me, and as I said to the Jews, 'Where I am going, you can't
come,' so now I tell you.
Joh
13:34 A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another,
just like I have loved you; that you also love one another.
Joh
13:35 By this everyone will know that you are my disciples, if you
have love for one another."
Joh
13:36 Simon Peter said to him, "Lord, where are you going?"
Jesus answered, "Where I am going, you can't follow now, but you
will follow afterwards."
Joh
13:37 Peter said to him, "Lord, why can't I follow you now? I
will lay down my life for you."
Joh
13:38 Jesus answered him, "Will you lay down your life for me?
Most certainly I tell you, the rooster won't crow until you have
denied me three times.
Jun.
11
John 14
Joh
14:1 "Don't let your heart be troubled. Believe in God. Believe
also in me.
Joh
14:2 In my Father's house are many homes. If it weren't so, I would
have told you. I am going to prepare a place for you.
Joh
14:3 If I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and
will receive you to myself; that where I am, you may be there also.
Joh
14:4 Where I go, you know, and you know the way."
Joh
14:5 Thomas said to him, "Lord, we don't know where you are
going. How can we know the way?"
Joh
14:6 Jesus said to him, "I am the way, the truth, and the life.
No one comes to the Father, except through me.
Joh
14:7 If you had known me, you would have known my Father also. From
now on, you know him, and have seen him."
Joh
14:8 Philip said to him, "Lord, show us the Father, and that
will be enough for us."
Joh
14:9 Jesus said to him, "Have I been with you such a long time,
and do you not know me, Philip? He who has seen me has seen the
Father. How do you say, 'Show us the Father?'
Joh
14:10 Don't you believe that I am in the Father, and the Father in
me? The words that I tell you, I speak not from myself; but the
Father who lives in me does his works.
Joh
14:11 Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me; or
else believe me for the very works' sake.
Joh
14:12 Most certainly I tell you, he who believes in me, the works
that I do, he will do also; and he will do greater works than these,
because I am going to my Father.
Joh
14:13 Whatever you will ask in my name, that will I do, that the
Father may be glorified in the Son.
Joh
14:14 If you will ask anything in my name, I will do it.
Joh
14:15 If you love me, keep my commandments.
Joh
14:16 I will pray to the Father, and he will give you another
Counselor, that he may be with you forever,-
Joh
14:17 the Spirit of truth, whom the world can't receive; for it
doesn't see him, neither knows him. You know him, for he lives with
you, and will be in you.
Joh
14:18 I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you.
Joh
14:19 Yet a little while, and the world will see me no more; but you
will see me. Because I live, you will live also.
Joh
14:20 In that day you will know that I am in my Father, and you in
me, and I in you.
Joh
14:21 One who has my commandments, and keeps them, that person is
one who loves me. One who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I
will love him, and will reveal myself to him."
Joh
14:22 Judas (not Iscariot) said to him, "Lord, what has
happened that you are about to reveal yourself to us, and not to the
world?"
Joh
14:23 Jesus answered him, "If a man loves me, he will keep my
word. My Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our
home with him.
Joh
14:24 He who doesn't love me doesn't keep my words. The word which
you hear isn't mine, but the Father's who sent me.
Joh
14:25 I have said these things to you, while still living with you.
Joh
14:26 But the Counselor, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send
in my name, he will teach you all things, and will remind you of all
that I said to you.
Joh
14:27 Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the
world gives, give I to you. Don't let your heart be troubled, neither
let it be fearful.
Joh
14:28 You heard how I told you, 'I go away, and I come to you.' If
you loved me, you would have rejoiced, because I said 'I am going to
my Father;' for the Father is greater than I.
Joh
14:29 Now I have told you before it happens so that, when it
happens, you may believe.
Joh
14:30 I will no more speak much with you, for the prince of the
world comes, and he has nothing in me.
Joh
14:31 But that the world may know that I love the Father, and as the
Father commanded me, even so I do. Arise, let us go from here.
